On 23 May 2018 at 8:59am Local person wrote:
Anyone else now screwed up by Southern's "new" timetable? The train I used to use has now been removed and out of sync timings now means 4 changes for me and an extra 30 minutes to the journey.
You can always rely on Southern....
On 23 May 2018 at 10:34am N Parker wrote:
4 changes to where?
On 23 May 2018 at 11:36am Tim wrote:
Sunday, my train departed 9 mins late.
Monday, it was 7 mins late.
Tues - Day Off
Weds - train cancelled.
Maria, are you noting this?
On 23 May 2018 at 11:47am Dexter wrote:
Try getting back from Victoria late at night.
Nothing at a reasonable time or anywhere near pub/event closing time.
The new timetable is a bad joke but nothing to be surprised about in these utterly broken times.
On 23 May 2018 at 1:48pm Bingo wrote:
There is literally nothing at all positive about the direction the country is going in at the moment. Literally nothing. But I'm 100% confident that all the same Maria will be telling us how great the Government is making things.
On the trains I feel a little guilty because the timings mean I get to work 20 minutes earlier and I get home 15 minutes earlier and I now spend 30 minutes less every day standing on platforms. That's purely luck of the draw though and where my office is located. I have colleagues travelling from elsewhere in the country for whom this is the final straw and they're going to take a hit to their lifestyle and change jobs rather than keep travelling to London.
On 23 May 2018 at 2:02pm Sceptical local wrote:
@ Bingo - maybe your last sentence unveils the secret master plan, that the new rail timetable is actually a covert Government-driven attempt to de-'Londoncentricise' the economy.
'Encourage' people to move stop commuting to London (by making their erstwhile 'difficult' journeys 'near-impossible') and hope they get so hacked off that they try and find jobs based outside the capital.....
Or perhaps not, maybe it's just the usual incompetent and dysfunctional public transport operators making yet another almighty c*ck-up!
On 23 May 2018 at 2:42pm Observer wrote:
"Try getting back from Victoria late at night.
Nothing at a reasonable time or anywhere near pub/event closing time."
There's a train at 1046 and another at 1200
This is exactly the same as it was before the timetable change. It's been annoying me for several years. There are trains every half an hour all evening though.
It seems to me like the service from Lewes has improved. To get up to London it used to be 606, then a 45 minute gap to 651, then 720 then 740. Now it's 600, 615, 645, 702, 716, 746. So between prime commuting times - 6 to 8 - we now have 6 trains rather than 4.
Still, moaning about trains is a national hobby.
On 23 May 2018 at 3:08pm arthur wrote:
On Saturdays there is now a 23.17 down to Lewes and Eastbourne.
On 23 May 2018 at 3:26pm Chaos on the Rail wrote:
My train has now gone from 12 carriages to 8.
The train is now full of people standing and delayed at each station as it’s taking longer for people to cram on board causing delays in the doors closing. WE HAVE GONE FROM BAD TO WORSE !!! Well done Southern Rail, great job as usual.
On 23 May 2018 at 6:25pm @Observer wrote:
The last train direct to Lewes is at 22.46, the train at 00.02 goes to Haywards Heath and then you have to pray that the connection has been held from Haywards Heath to Lewes.
On 23 May 2018 at 6:55pm Train Spotter wrote:
All 'direct' trains to Lewes go via Haywards Heath, and many of them divide there. The last one from Victoria, at 00.02 divides at HH. One part going on to Eastbourne the other part usually to Littlehampton. There is no connection 'to be held'. The division is always clearly marked and announced. You cant get stranded at HH unless you get off the train, then rejoin the wrong section.
On 23 May 2018 at 7:54pm Commuter wrote:
@ Maria works bl***y hard for the cause of the rail traveller.
What's the alternative? You vote in a Labour government with commie Corbyn in charge. Together with his deputy Mc.Donnell who wants to dismantle capitalism and create a socialist state (you won't have to travel to London, because your job will be gone). Then there is the president of the RMT; who stated in a meeting about a year or two ago "My main aim is to smash the capitalist system".
Just put up with present train system for a while, until it sorts itself out. The only alternative is to DRIVE into London. Dearer; and dosen't bear thinking about.
On 23 May 2018 at 8:26pm Monkey wrote:
2 core commuter trains to London, the 7.40 and the 7.54, both 12 carriages, replaced by one 8 carriage train at 7.46. So far I've been lucky enough to get seated but there's standing in the aisles when the train leaves Lewes and it's bedlam by the time we leave Haywards Heath..
On 23 May 2018 at 9:03pm Sean Hoyle wrote:
@Commuter.
You've misquoted me there my old fudge but please don't let that interfere with your extremist right wing Daily Mail rhetoric.
The word used was 'supersession', a much more nuanced word than 'smashed'.
But you just keep on keeping it simple old chum. 
On 23 May 2018 at 10:02pm Hello Monkey wrote:
Move to Croydon then.
On 23 May 2018 at 10:57pm Fat controller wrote:
No more direct trains to Ashford from Brighton - a pain in the *rse.
On 23 May 2018 at 11:03pm George Stephenson wrote:
Didn't the Southern Fail timetable win the Man Booker prize for Fiction last year? Perhaps they're aiming for the Nobel Prize for Literature this time round....and is there still someone on duty at Lewes to sell me a ticket rather than a machine outside? and is there going to be someone there to help me with my wheelchair when I need to get on and off the train?
On 24 May 2018 at 11:57am Isambard K. Brunel wrote:
Don't blame me - I only engineered the Permanent Way and infrastructure.
On 24 May 2018 at 12:05pm Observer wrote:
"2 core commuter trains to London, the 7.40 and the 7.54, both 12 carriages, replaced by one 8 carriage train at 7.46. S"
There's also a 6.15, 6.45, 7.02 and 7 .15 where they used to be just the 647 and the 720. I got the 702 and 715 the past two mornings and they're both pretty quiet until Gatwick
On 24 May 2018 at 10:33pm sue wrote:
When did the 01.30 from Vic to Eastbourne stop running? Been a while since I used it, but had thought it existed until the new changes came in. I prefer to get the midnight one back, but had the later one in mind as a fallback plan.
On 26 May 2018 at 11:34am Gladys Knight wrote:
I got the Midnight train to Georgia, on time.